William Widgery

William Widgery (1753-31 July 1822) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-MA 15) from 4 March 1811 to 3 March 1813, succeeding Ezekiel Whitman and preceding George Bradbury.

Biography
William Widgery was born in Devon, England in 1753, but he and his parents emigrated to Philadelphia in the Thirteen Colonies. Widgery served on a privateer during the American Revolutionary War before becoming a lawyer in Portland, Maine, and he served in the State House from 1787 to 1793 and from 1795 to 1797, in the State Senate in 1794, in the US House of Representatives from 1811 to 1813, and as a judge on the Court of Common Pleas from 1813 to 1821. He died in 1822.